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Using dance to create a movement to end violence against women

Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw is a professor at the UCLA School of Law. She is also the faculty director of the Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies at the Columbia Law School. She is the co-founder of the African...

Q&A: Olympic gold medalist and UCLA freshman Jordyn Wieber

Jordyn Wieber (second from the left) struck gold at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, along with her teammates on the U.S. women's gymnastics team. She's now a psychology major at UCLA where she trains privately and serves as manager of the UCLA...

Political strategy or malpractice to immigrant communities?

Victor Narro is the project director of the UCLA Downtown Labor Center, which provides leadership programs for Los Angeles’ immigrant workers and internship opportunities for UCLA students. He is the co-editor of the book, "Working for...

Staff members break down barriers by learning Spanish

When Mark Speare was asked a year and a half ago whether he thought managers in health sciences might want to take time out of their busy schedules to take a 10-week class at UCLA to learn basic Spanish, the chief human resources officer for...

Q&A: Epidemiologist Alex Ortega likes to rap

The UCLA professor of public health and psychiatry answered a few off-the-cuff questions in the Zocalo green room before a panel discussion on how Angelenos eat.

Policy reforms are needed boost sagging productivity

Edward Prescott (far left), the 2004 Nobel laureate in economics, is a professor of economics and director of the Center for the Advanced Study in Economic Efficiency at Arizona State University. Lee Ohanian is a professor of economics at UCLA,...

Staff News — Feb. 10, 2014

Center for the Art of Performance director Edmunds named 'catalyst in residence' at Pew Center Kristy Edmunds, executive and artistic director of the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA, became The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage’s first...

Out and About: Rwanda -- Building a nation from a nightmare

President Paul Kagame of Rwanda will talk about his nation's recovery from the genocide of 1994, its subsequent economic advances and future challenges at a Fe. 12 dinner cohosted by UCLA's Center for World Health and the Los Angeles World...

Don't stress; live a little

Demanding careers… relationship problems… financial struggles … family strife, not to mention the hour you just spent stuck in traffic — to be sure, life can be stressful. But with evidence continuing to mount that carrying all of that mental...

Are you really going to eat that?

The authors say couples can have productive conversations with each other about diet and exercise if they focus on motivation, encouragement and support.

Vladimir Putin's remarkable comeback

Daniel Treisman is a professor of political science at UCLA, and author of "The Return: Russia's Journey from Gorbachev to Medvedev." This op-ed appeared Feb. 3 on CNN.      As Russian President Vladimir Putin opens the Winter...

What natural scientists can learn from the humanities

Michael Suk-Young Chwe, a political scientist at UCLA., is the author of “Jane Austen, Game Theorist. ” This op-ed appeared in the New York Times on Jan. 31.       Science is in crisis, just when we need it most. Two...

Big prize for small costume design

Eight UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television students have labored to create gorgeous, half-scale costumes that were entered into a competition. The winner will be announced Saturday, Feb. 8. The costumes they created were...

UCLA faculty experts advisory: Winter Olympics in Sochi

The 2014 Winter Games will take place from Feb. 7 to 23 in the southern Russian city of Sochi. UCLA has experts on sports injuries and doping; Russian politics, security issues and terrorism; and Russia's policies regarding sexual minorities.
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